On 09/06/2013 16:43, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-06-09 3:45 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not convinced a power outage broke the fs so that you now can't >> umount it, I'm having a hard time imaging how that would happen. More >> likely some other script file elsewhere is damaged and leaves files open >> when the system wants to umount /var. > > Hmmm.... > > Admittedly, I don't reboot this system often, so maybe I'm > misremembering when the problem crept in. > > Could it be the NFS mount that it is hanging on, and unmounting/var is > just that last thing showing on the screen? > > I think I'll try manually unmounting that before rebooting the next time > I need to(need to update the kernel soon anyway)... > > I do know the last few times this has happened, the NFS mount was > 'unavailable' (the device had powered down without first unmounting it > from the server)... > > I hope that is all it is...
Ugh, NFS complicates things :-) I have a similar thing with my notebook and NFS mounts at home, I often forget to umount the NFS dirs, causing issues when I then go to work and wake the machine up If you have NFS in the mix, I'd certainly investigate that first before getting into more complex things. Also check that your NFS and mount stuff in /etc/init.d are doing the right thing in the right order with both startup and shutdown -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
